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"Bad earthing on the power supply...." If the hum didn't occur in the original location, but now it does, I wouldn't suspect the power supply in the amp(s). With the same hum in both amps, I would have to suspect something outside of both amps, since it is not too likely that you would find...

A BAD SHOCK! YOU BET! I wouldn't dare replace a grounded cord with a nongrounding cord! While I was attending an amateur musical program one evening, a couple of fellows set up their two amps and guitars to play and sing a song. When the lead singer grabbed the mike stand of the mike...

If both amps have this hum now that you have moved them, perhaps there is something nearby producing a magnetic field which gives your amps the new hum. You didn't say that it was a 60Hz hum, but that frequency is the most common stray hum in America. Two questions come to my mind: (1) is...

I believe that comfort is the main goal, provided that you can afford that "comfortable chair." From there, you may need a few other characteristics of that chair. In my home studio, I use a standard moderately-priced desk chair on which the back can be adjusted in its distance behind me. The...

How do you find the songs or portions of them on SoundCloud??? Being totally blind and unable to see the whole screen at once the way sighted person can, I have arrowed and tabbed around after signing into SoundCloud; but I cannot find the three actual recordings you have posted. So, using...

The thought that comes to my mind is based on the idea that the synth arranger's sound, being not quite the same as that of a real guitar, is producing some partials which interact to "muddy up" the sound. It is wel known that in many cases when two tones mix, especially in an amp with any...

I have the same problem at times; so confession time: I lean heavily and shamelessly on the "punch-in/punch-out" function on my Tascam DP24. I do pretty well on my vocal tracks, often getting one right on the first or second take; but if you could be in my recording studio when I am creating a...

I have written only a very few instrumentals. As I think about them, they have come about through two approaches: 1) A particular "chord lick" on which I happened to "stumble on" while knocking on a guitar, bass, or keyboard; 2) a novel use of some electronic or novel recording technique. Of...

My understanding about the Tascam DP24 brings two considerations to the discusson here: 1) If you examine a card formatted and used in the DP24, there is a Music folder with a folder or two for "system management" and then a folder for each song you have on the card. When you open the folder...

Hi, Dave, I want to hear your song; but I cannot make it play on that SoundClud system. Perhaps you can help me find and play it with some explicit step-by-step KEYBOARD-ONLY INSTRUCTIONS, assuming that I am sitting in your post about the song. What do I do TOTALLY WITHOUT A MOUSE in order to...

You have a point: The fewer magnetic particles passing the record point per second, the lower the maximum audio frequency you can record. Consider the situation with those open-reel tapedecks of the 50s, 60s, and 70s; and note that they commonly had three speeds at least on consumer decks...

In any system where the level controls affect only playback, we have to watch the levels at a point where the controls do affect the level. In everything I have used for recording (the Fostex MR-8HD and the Tascam DP24), the sliders affected record level, so I had to be careful where I set...

Thanks. I'm not sure what folk use most of the time for entering messages on this system. I guess I am using the editor available in the message system here. I just hit Enter on Quick Reply, and an editor comes up for me to write. But at the end of the day, I want to do the best job I can...

Thanks for your comment about the lack of paragraphs in my post; I would appreciate a tip, either off-list or on, concerning how to make paragraphs show in my posts. I receive my email in Outlook 2016, and Firefox is my current browser of choice. I had thought that if I were to hit Enter twice...

Don't let yourself become too discouraged. A lot of "Where you go from here" depends on what you ultimately want to do with your finished recordings. Since I am using my recordings mainly for my own entertainment and that of a few close friends, the setup I have works fine for me. If you want...

Your question is very interesting to me because I fit your situation. As a totally-blind musician, I have long preferred a hardware dedicated recorder over a software application on a standard computer. I am using the Focus Scarlet II interface to connect my Tascam DP24 to my desktop PC...

One thing I have experienced concerning phase on a single source occurred on an acoustic/electric Epiphone Guitar with volume, bass, mid-range, and treble sliders on the guitar's body. It also has a "phase" switch which, according to the instructions, can be operated to reduce feedback when the...

I like what you said to overcome his reluctance to use a mixer, since I was thinking along the same lines: That the mixer could drive both channels as a mono sound for car playback and that the preamp built into any mixer worth bringing home these days should bring up the signal from the mike...

I have used one or two good consumer open-reel recorders which would make recordings of sufficient quality that they could be stood up beside a digital recording and difficult to distinguish in a blind test. On the other hand, I am not sure whether a properly-done recording made on a...

Maybe I am too miserly in my approach to my home recording studio, or maybe I am completely out of touch with modern studio design - especially home recording studios; but I have been in multitrack recording since 1967, and I have never had a room treatment anything like that which you are...